Plato's Views on Discontinuous Speech and Discourse Emergence

6. Plato, about the differences in the speech-reason, the “sixth gender”, which is also discontinuous (262a): “Therefore, there is no speech at all by saying only the names continuously nor, in turn, by saying verbs without names […] because the speech would not exist by saying these things continuously”.

7. Again (262e): “So, inasmuch as we agreed that some objects are adequate to each other, while others are not, with respect to the signs of the voice, clearly some cannot be adapted, while others can be adapted, so the discourse emerges thanks to these things.”.

3. For Plato, the idea that there is only one thing and the idea that there are many things that cannot mix are both false, so only discontinuism is true (252d-e): “Therefore, certainly only the third alternative remains. […] Indeed, only one of these three options would be the n...